A ‘Legitimate’ Dog
Mass stupidity, climate change, and kicking the corn habit.
Year: 2012
Capps and Maldonado on ‘Legitimate Rape,’ Taxes, and Energy Loans
House contenders trade jabs as House Speaker John Boehner comes to town.
Profiles in Excellence
Amy Bassett and Sebastian Hoenig swim, bike, and run for the fun of it, but a casual approach to the triathlon is not in their brains and veins.
Silly Season
Amid epic battle over dog dentures, Brown’s corgi leads charge for taxes.
Santa Barbara’s Summer of the Shark
Are there more sharks in the Channel, or are people just paying more attention to them?
volume 26, number 345, August 23-30, 2012
How Athletes Train for the Santa Barbara Triathlon
A Radical Gun-Control Proposal
In the aftermath of the tragic Aurora killings, and the rampage at the Sikh Temple in Wisconsin, and now three more gun deaths in Texas, I’ve abandoned my previous allegiance to gun control in this country. As a longtime schoolteacher, it’s now obvious to me that we not only need to continue arming adults in America, we should extend this right to all citizen-children over eight years of age.
Playing Chicken at Burgergate
They dubbed it “Burgergate” back when Burger King’s Upper State Street drive-in got okayed under suspicious circumstances.
Plan Approved to Find Faults Near Diablo Canyon
Environmentalists worry the 3-D seismic tests will harm marine mammals.
The Race Is On
Anxious athletes will be lined up at East Beach early Saturday, August 25, ready to plunge into the ocean for the first stage of the long-course triathlon, a one-mile swim.
